Annual Sale of Blue Faced Leicester Females. Title and top price coups for Smearsett BFL flock at Skipton The North Craven-based Booth farming family, who run the Smearsett Blue Faced Leicester flock at Old Hall Cottage, Feizor, returned to winning ways when responsible for both the gimmer hogg champion and in-lamb £3,000 top price achiever at Skipton Auction Mart’s annual winter fixture for breed females, also the first registered sheep breed show and sale of 2017

Fortnightly Catalogue Sheep Sale: 1,217 Store Lambs & 13 Blue Faced Leicester Females There was a larger entry of lambs this fortnight, but quality was very mixed with lambs generally smaller than the previous sale. Anything with strength and type was well bid for, whilst the long keep lambs were keenly sought with feeder finishers reporting a good supply of winter forage that needs eating. Sales continue fortnightly, please pre-enter stock with the mart office for the catalogue.

ANNUAL SALE OF INLAMB PEDIGREE BELTEX & TEXEL FEMALES. FULL REPORT BELOW.

Fortnightly Catalogue Sale of Sheep Forward: 7,786 Head, (Store Lambs Overall av £53.09) Comp: 6,369 Store Lambs, 45 Rams, 1171 Gimmer Lambs & 201 Ewes.

MARKET REPORT – TUESDAY 25th OCTOBER 2016 Good trade for all classes of stock on sale today. Rams saw an 85% clearance rate. FORWARD: 258 Breeding Sheep & Rams.

DALESBRED SHEEP SALE Top price today was a shearling ram consigned by Messrs JT&J Kelsall of Clapham, which was bred by a Capstick tup out of a Haygarth bred ewe, which sold to Messrs R Jackson & Son of Horton in Ribblesdale for 260gns. Also matching 260gns was the second prize shearling ram from JM Wilson & Son of Beckwithshaw, which was sired by a homebred tup and sold to Martin Brown of Ramsgill. Champion was Trevor & Joe Stoneys shearling ram which was sired by a Huddleston ram and bred from a Longton bred ewe made 80gns. 84% clearance rate.

FORWARD: 2,602 Breeding Sheep & Gimmer Lambs. (2,380 Gimmer Lambs and 222 Dalesbred Sheep) CCM Auctions conducted their fourth fortnightly sale of Gimmer Lambs at Skipton on Wednesday where a good entry attracted a very busy ringside of customers keen for sheep late in the season. A few pens of Mules topped £100 with Kevin Wilson leading the sale at £108, Jack Berry t/a JH Throup at £100, other leading pens in the 90’s. Overall there were 2,152 Mules entered and they averaged £72.41 overall, NEMSA coming in at £74.09 (+£2.33) other Mules at £71.76 (+£1.00).

FORWARD: 1,308 Breeding Sheep & Rams including Annual Sale of Lleyn Breeding sheep and Gimmer Lambs, Fortnightly Sale of Breeding Sheep and Third Sale of Swaledale Ewes. A mixed show for the fortnightly sale would see Mule, Halfbred and Continental shearlings dearer than the previous, whilst ewes saw better quality a decent trade but plainer sorts harder to cash. LLeyn Gimmer Lamb Show - 1st Caring for Life sold for £89

Forward: 72 Registered Swaledale Rams There was a large crowd gathered at Skipton on Monday Evening at CCM’s Annual Show & Sale of Swaledale Rams where 4 rams sold for 1,000gns but more impressive a 95% clearance rate, 76 rams forward and 72 sold. The first of the four figure prices came for a 3 shear ram consigned by JR Smith of Carleton. Bred by Colin Birbeck and used since a shearling it sold to SM Towler, Malham Moor.

Gimmer lambs out in force at Skipton A total of 6,649 ewe lambs, an increase of just over 1,000 head on the year, from over 100 sheep farmers across the region, had their day in the spotlight at Skipton Auction Mart’s annual seasonal fixture, which featured four breed shows for North of England Mule, Masham, Dales Mule and Swaledale lambs, with all four titles falling to local breeders. (Tues, Oct 4)

Robinson title winners head prices at Skipton Swaledale female highlight Swaledale females, 3,602 head in total, flocked to Skipton Auction Mart for the annual Saturday show and sale of draft ewes and gimmer shearlings, when the turnout sold to an overall average of £108.09 per head, an increase of £3.86 on last year’s corresponding fixture.

CCM Auctions held their third fortnightly sale of gimmer lambs at Skipton Mart on Tuesday where 6,649 lambs were sold, representing an increase of just over 1,000 head on the year.

ANNUAL SHOW & SALE OF SWALEDALE EWES & GIMMER SHEARLINGS Forward: 3,602 head. Overall Average was £108.09 (+£3.86) CCM Auctions conducted their Annual Sale of Swaledale Draft Ewes and Gimmer Shearlings at Skipton Mart on Saturday. A superb show of Swaledale Sheep was headed by the Champion pen from Stuart and Debbie Robinson of Foredale whose pen of 10 joined show co judge Mr Kevin Wilson.

MARKET REPORT – FRIDAY 30th SEPTEMBER 2016 CCM Auctions held their Annual Sale of Rams at Skipton Mart on Friday. With selling today spread across 4 sale rings the market was full to capacity with breeds covering the main sales for Blue Faced Leicesters, Suffolks, Hampshire Downs, Blue Texels and Zwartbles together with second sales for Texels, Charollais, Beltex and other breeds. The results of the shows and prices achieved are as below. Thanks to all our judges for giving their time and to sponsors who generously gave prizes. Forward: 1,136 head of Rams & Females.

FORWARD: REGISTERED LLEYN SHEEP CCM Auctions conducted the Annual Sale of MV Acc Registered LLeyn Sheep at Skipton Mart on Thursday for members of The Lleyn Sheep Society. Champion was A Shearling Ram from The Fort Family of Brighton House, Steeton. Sired by Clansman, he went on to sell for 1,000gns to Tim Riley, Hebden Bridge. In a year when Lleyn Females have generally been less money, Skipton had a solid trade for Gimmer Shearlings to record an average on a par with last year. The clearance rate for rams was also good with the usual strong trade for commercial types. A poor show of ewe lambs this year were not up to the usual size seen at Skipton and the average of £77 reflects this.